Neithea

Searched as Neithea (Neithea) matsumotoi. The Paleobiology Database treats Neithea as the accepted name.

Neithea

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeitheidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pectinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Neitheidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya106.3 Mya121.9 Mya100 Mya

4 occurrences of Neithea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

4 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Haidateyama — 33.17°N, 131.50°EDoganaro — 33.37°N, 133.27°EYatsushiro — 32.50°N, 130.58°ESukubo — 32.85°N, 131.62°E

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The named rock units Neithea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Neithea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Neithea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 359 sites for Neithea, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Neithea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Neithea was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNeitheidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Drouët 1825